[1] After his war service Proksch settled in the now much smaller Austria and returned to politics by rejoining the renamed Deutsche Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei.
[3] He also served on the Linz City Council as the chairman of the Nazi faction from July 1923 to January 1932.
[4] On 29 August 1926 Hitler appointed Proksch Gauleiter for Upper Austria, and he served in this post until June 1927.
[5] However, Proksch did have strong influence over finances and he was credited with eliminating the 30,000 schillings of debt that the party found itself in.
[7] Proksch returned to Austria in time to take part in the coup attempt that resulted in the killing of Engelbert Dollfuss in 1934.
In March 1936, he was elected to the Reichstag for electoral constituency 34, Hamburg, and in April 1938 he switched to representing district 8, Liegnitz.